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WHOOP with Navigator band As screenless fitness trackers surge in popularity, Apple is reportedly exploring its own version—potentially a display-free band or ring-style device — to expand beyond the traditional Apple Watch. With rivals like Whoop, Fitbit Air, and Garmin Cirqa gaining traction, and Apple execs noting the competitive edge of recovery-focused wearables, the company may finally…

Apple is facing a new class action lawsuit alleging fraud, false advertising, and misrepresentation related to a recently disclosed vulnerability in its iCloud Private Relay feature. According to 9to5Mac, security researchers revealed last week that iCloud Private Relay — a privacy tool meant to hide users’ real IP addresses from websites when browsing in Safari — often fails to do so. The…

“Last Seen” premieres Wednesday, September 9th on Apple TV. Apple TV on Tuesday released the trailer for “Last Seen,” a new Australian thriller starring Gotham Award winner Patrick Brammall. Produced by 60Forty Films, the gripping drama is adapted by acclaimed writer and executive producer Kris Mrksa from CWA John Creasey Dagger Award-winning author Ryan David Jahn’s book, “The Dispatcher.” Emmy…

Two new puzzlers, endless ways to play — Block Blast!+ and Art of Fauna: Cozy Puzzles+ come to Apple Arcade on September 3. Whether gamers are looking for high-octane action or a laid-back afternoon, Apple Arcade has a little bit of everything for every player, and its puzzle catalog is getting a big upgrade. On September 3, two standout new titles join the mix: Block Blast!+ and Art of Fauna:…

Apple TV has announced that it has picked up “Ascension,” a new drama from multi-Oscar Award winner Alfonso Cuarón (“Disclaimer,” “Roma,” “Gravity”) and starring and executive produced by BAFTA TV Award winner and five-time Golden Globe nominee Caitríona Balfe (“Outlander,” “Belfast”). The series will be co-showrun by Natalie Erika James (“Apartment 7A,” “Relic”) and Christian White (“Apartment…

Natalia Téllez, Bárbara Mori, Amorita Rasgado and Ximena Sariñana in season two of “Women in Blue” (“Las Azules”), premiering globally on Apple TV on August 12, 2026. Mexico’s pioneering all-female police force returns in the second season of the Apple TV series “Las Azules” (“Women in Blue”). Set in the patriarchal Mexico of the 1970s, the new season blends historical fact and fiction as the…

Apple Retail Store in Reston, Virginia Apple has agreed to pay $150,000 to resolve claims by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) that a manager at one of its retail stores made antisemitic remarks and denied a longtime Jewish employee’s requests for time off before terminating him. The settlement was disclosed in a joint filing Friday in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.…

Apple is still moving ahead with a major glass-focused redesign of the iPhone to mark the device’s 20th anniversary next year, Mark Gurman reports for Bloomberg News, citing people familiar with the matter. This direct counters a recent Jefferies report that claimed the project had been canceled based on “supply-chain checks.” The company plans to introduce the new look on its iPhone Pro models…

Apple’s Messages icon A Washington, D.C., resident recently received a startling text message that claimed Apple Pay had already charged him $8,250, with a second identical charge set to go through automatically in only 35 minutes, Fox News’ CyberGuy Kurt Knutsson reports. The message, which appeared to come from “Apple Pay Account Services,” instructed him to call a toll-free number immediately,…

Apple is bracing for a sharp rise in the cost of building its upcoming iPhone 18 Pro models, with bill-of-materials (BOM) expenses for the 256 GB version projected to climb about 38% year-over-year, according to the latest smartphone industry research from TrendForce. The primary driver is soaring memory prices due to RAMageddon. Memory’s share of total BOM cost for recent 256 GB iPhone Pro…

Apple’s upcoming iPhone 18 Pro Max is set to deliver a meaningful jump in battery capacity, according to a new leak reported by MacRumors An alleged photo of a battery pack intended for the Chinese model of the iPhone 18 Pro Max lists a capacity of 5,391 mAh. That figure represents a nearly 12% increase over the 4,823 mAh battery found in the equivalent Chinese-market iPhone 17 Pro Max. The…

Apple has published a (temporary, it turns out) guide showing eligible Mac users in mainland China how to connect Alibaba’s Qwen artificial intelligence service to Siri and the company’s Writing Tools feature. The update, detailed in a Chinese-language support document, allows users who opt in to leverage Qwen — Alibaba’s family of generative AI models — for more detailed responses through Siri,…

Today, Apple and Major League Baseball (MLB) unveiled the September schedule for “Friday Night Baseball,” the weekly doubleheader streaming every Friday on Apple TV throughout the 2026 regular season. Apple TV subscribers across 60 countries and regions can enjoy two marquee matchups each week with enhanced production quality, expert commentary, and no local broadcast restrictions. For the first…

Apple has been testing memory chips from China’s ChangXin Memory Technologies (CXMT) for use across product lines that include iPhones and MacBooks, according to a Wall Street Journal report citing people familiar with the matter. The move comes as the company grapples with a severe memory-chip shortage intensified by surging demand from the artificial-intelligence boom. The iPhone maker has held…

Apple is considering a sweeping redesign of its Apple Watch lineup to adapt to a wearables market shifting toward screen-free devices and alternative form factors, according to reporting in Bloomberg News’ Mark GurmanBloomberg News’ “Power On” newsletter by Mark Gurman. The industrial design team has spent roughly the past year exploring a “broader rethink” of the product, evaluating multiple…

CAD renders revealed in March show Apple’s rumored foldable iPhone design Apple is intensifying preparations for its annual September product launch event while incoming CEO John Ternus assembles his leadership team and new details emerge about a discarded element of the company’s recently launched device-leasing program called “Apple Upgrade.” The company is readying for what is described as its…

Apple shares faced fresh pressure on Monday after Jefferies cut its rating on the tech giant to Underperform from Hold, citing worries about the company’s ability to sustain higher average selling prices for iPhones amid production setbacks and rising costs. Analyst Edison Lee lowered the firm’s price target to $263.66 from $285.56, implying roughly 16% downside from recent levels. The move adds…